Why Kindles are worse than paper books , specifically today

[nineveh_uk]

1) They're really annoying to flip back to check something.

2) You can't read them in the bath.

I feel let down. I have also let down myself by pulling the cartilage etc in my ribcage through ill-advised ironing and it is all on fire in a kind of cold way. It is very annoying, I hadn't done that for ages. C'est la vie. I worked the bank holiday because I am taking Friday off instead to see my sisters for the weekend (4 hours on the train each way, it's a good thing I love them), and it was quite peaceful and i could just get things done without interruptions. But term has hit like a stampede of wildebeest and my Winter Begonia rewatch has reached the depressing parts. I thought I might try Anne With an E - cheerful, pretty scenery, in English- and then I remembered that it is not a cheerful adaptation, which is very annoying. There is plenty of 'in the midst of life we are in death'in the original, it doesn't need extra grimdzrk for credibility.

Anyway, it is time for bed, the electric blanket, and She Who Became the Sun, which I started yesterday and am enjoying a lot.

Comments

[antisoppist]

I saw half of the first series of Anne with an E and haven't got round to watching any more. I thought it was interesting in what it was doing with a modern psychological take on Anne's childhood and pointing out that a child who has been orphaned and then sent to be a domestic servant basically in homes with drunken husbands would turn up in Avonlea quite traumatised, but then it veered so far from the books that I haven't summoned up the energy to carry on even to see what they were going to do to the plots next.

[azdak]

Yes, I liked the bit with the missing earring, for instance, when it wasn’t enough just to say sorry. And I also appreciated the handling of periods.

[nineveh_uk]

It sounds like the sort of thing that I should give a go one weekend when I'm doing some sewing or similar and want something on in the background, and then I can either like it or not be so annoyed that I didn't.

[carbonel]

I watched the entire first series of Anne with an E, but there was a lot of teeth-gritting in the last few episodes. And then there was this stupid cliffhanger at the end of the last episode...and I never went back to it after the next season dropped.

On the other hand, a Canadian friend of mine loves it. Go figure.